Cooking lessons | Resident chef | Instant mash | Location tracking | Despairing of humanity Regarding teaching children life skills (Letters, 14 September), in the 1990s I worked as a student accommodation manager. A mother phoned me devastated that her son had not been allocated catered halls. “He can’t cook,” she pleaded. Close to the end of my tether with hundreds of students to house, I retorted brusquely: “You’ve got three weeks, teach him.” Helen Barney Mumbles, Swansea • Some 28 years ago, my son went to university armed with fundamental cooking skills. After making a bolognese sauce for eight, he became the chef and never had to buy food or do the washing up in his entire first year. Jan May Deal, Kent Continue reading...